A California Highway Patrol report states the driver was unable to negotiate a curve in the road and overcorrected, sending the vehicle across both lanes of traffic, over a river bed and head on into a raised portion of a culvert.

Colon was taken to Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, where he was pronounced dead, the coroner's office said.

The vehicle caught fire, but the flames were extinguished by several bystanders, the CHP report stated.